Word: minded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good or ill, the Senate had made up its mind. Firmly, it voted down the attempt of Colorado's Edwin C. Johnson to eliminate military aid. Then, 41 days after President Truman's challenge, the Senate approved the Truman Doctrine...
...dogged by disaster. She hired detectives to guard her first child, Vinson; she provided a scrubbed, perfumed Negro boy to "keep him from getting spoiled by wealth." But he was killed by an automobile when he was nine. Her marriage ended tragically. Hard-drinking Ned McLean's mind gave way-in a moment of wild humor he sent her a Latvian divorce summons done up in a Christmas box decorated with tiny reindeer and holly. He was committed to an insane asylum a little later, finally died there...
...time the energetic First Lady faltered. But to la Senora, long snubbed by stiff-necked, short-pedigreed Argentine society because she came from the wrong side of the tracks, the trip to Madrid seemed a chance to prove her social acceptability. Last week, she made up her mind: she would go. Democracia confidently reported that Senora Peron's visit would "revive the diplomatic life of Madrid...
Inventor Charles F. Kettering, General Motors research chief, gave the recipe for an inventor: "To make an inventor, all you have to do is take his mind off the idea that it's a disgrace to fail...
...open mind and sharp eye have taken enough time off from study to form some definite ideas on that fertile ground for catticism, the Harvard man. "He may be a student first and a college man second, but he certainly knows how to handle himself on a date," she opines with a grin...